If You Liked The Novices, Watch These Next
Finished The Novices (1970) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Novices, most of them are comedy, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle(1987)
7.4ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
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2.Somewhere in Queens(2023)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
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5.New Biz in the Hood(2019)
5.8ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb who will quickly propose to teach them the rules and practices to adopt…
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6.Bye Bye Morons(2020)
7.2ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to…
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7.Macadam Stories(2015)
6.8DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
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8.A Real Job(2023)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school. Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be. Hopefully, his supportive and…
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9.The Decline of the American Empire(1986)
6.7ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife…
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10.Julia(s)(2022)
6.8DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each was a turning point with dramatic consequences. What would have…
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11.All Fired Up(1982)
6.0ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects…
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12.Playing God(2021)
6.0ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
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14.Madea Goes to Jail - The Play(2006)
7.6ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Madea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.
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15.Under the Stars of Paris(2021)
6.7DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother.…
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16.Arab Blues(2020)
6.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
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17.The Good Half(2024)
6.2ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
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18.The Big Hit(2020)
7.0ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance…
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19.About Alex(2014)
6.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
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